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Artist Trust is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2014 Fellowships and The Millay Colony of the Arts residencies! The following artists were selected for their artistic achievement, dedication to an artistic discipline, and potential for further professional development. 15 artists working in craft, literary, media, and music will each receive $7,500 of unrestricted funds. In addition, Artist Trust has partnered with The Millay Colony for the Arts, located in upstate New York, to award one artist each in the literary and music disciplines with a one-month residency and a $1,000 stipend.

Artists will be fulfilling their award during the year by participating in a Meet the Artist event held outside their place of residency yet within Washington State. The purpose is to outreach to underserved populations that are not aware of the artist and/or have little access to art.

This year’s Fellowships are made possible, in part, through generous gifts from: Eve and Chap Alvord, Nancy Alvord, Michael and Cathy Casteel, Anne Devereux and David Mills for the Gene and Liz Brandzel Fellowship, Stephanie Ellis-Smith and Douglas Smith, Robert E. Frey, Katharyn Alvord Gerlich, The Klorfine Foundation, Alida and Christopher Latham, Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, Catherine Eaton Skinner and David Skinner, and Merrill Wagner and Bob Ryman. Funding also provided by friends of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom in honor of their marriage.

We greatly appreciate our Fellowship program funding partners Amazon.com, Inc. and ArtsWA. In-kind hotel accommodations for panelists are provided by Hotel Max. Support for the Fellowship Meet the Artist program comes from Target.

The Millay Colony for the Arts is an artists’ residency program on the former property of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay located in Austerliz, New York. Founded in 1973, the Colony’s mission is to nurture and promote the vitality of the arts by providing writers, visual artists, and composers with a rural retreat that encourages creative intensity and exploration in the context of a nurturing and artistic community.

Artist Trust has invested over $10 million in Washington State artists since its founding in 1986, through grant programs and direct support. Artist Trust also provides a comprehensive suite of career training and professional development resources to help artists achieve their career goals.

Artist Trust is a not-for-profit organization whose sole mission is to support and encourage individual artists working in all disciplines in order to enrich community life throughout Washington State. Find out more at www.artisttrust.org.